If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.

Sometimes I defy flower anatomy & other times I try and replicate it intricately!

Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.

Crying wouldn't help anything now.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.