In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

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.

We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves.

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.

The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.

They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.

O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.