In England, nobody's your friend.

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.

Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners.

London is a roost for every bird.

My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.