Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

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.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

There is no excuse for failure when you gave up

One must be frank to be relevant.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

Never trust anyone who buttons their top button.

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

The phrase "corporate identity design" seems to be a bit exclusive it sometimes frightens the smaller client who can't relate because they don't consider themselves "corporate."

I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.

Diabetes taught me discipline.