The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

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.

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

A crossbow?” Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans,” the man said.

Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

I told my sons to remember to always thank people for compliments.

I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other people feel at ease with her.

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.