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

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.

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.

Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.

I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.

I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.