It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.

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 truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.

Humans can be inhuman and greed is to blame for it.

One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra "I am not the body and I am not the mind".

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

There is something very unhealthy about Christianity.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

Death is the perfect knowing.