It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

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.

My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.

Blaming yourself is like a curse eating you from within, a rogue virus, cancerous and poisonous. It will drive you mad if you let it .

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.

I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

You only can hurt me if I don't know who I am.

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.