Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

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.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest.

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

Hustle makes up for many a mistake.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.