People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Open your heart! Dance with joy and love.

You can never right an intentional wrong.

Life is too short, so don't let no one to ruin your day, the best way to avoid them is to kill them with kindest

Despair is something horribly simple.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.