It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

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 kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

I'm interested in going places that I haven't been. And I'm interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push me in different places.

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

Love's reason's without reason