In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

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.

Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.'Of course, ' he says.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

Embrace life. You have life. There's a lot things going on out there.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.

I'm not someone who likes having a master plan for everything, but I do believe in a vision for your life.

For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.

True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane

With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.