Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

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.

If you stop learning, you start dying.

God’s beautiful woman spares no effort to provide the best she can for her beloved family.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

I never told a joke in my life.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

Women are natural leaders. They are wired to lead.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.