It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

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.

A world without music is only filled with sounds in the air

But all them things exist, " said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

If you remain in a positive spiral, you will always learn something new to reach your goals.

It's worth all the pain, Now that I found myself back in your arms again.

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.

We need to give credence to the nonsexual relationships...the idea of having significant others instead of a significant other.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

It simply doesn't make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That's wrong and we should stop it.