Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

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.

SOFIA: We’re not meant to be good and perfect. You know who lives longer? Married couples who enjoy under the sheets time alone. Enjoy the fun, but understand there must be an end goal.

Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility.

Game: The end.Addiction: It begins.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

My Spanish is limited to burrito and taco.

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.