Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

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.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability.

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.

It's hard to play a laptop in the midst of band and have people want to buy your t-shirts and CD's.

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.