The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn’t care who was cut in the process.

He narrowed his eyes at me, pushed out of the booth and stomped over to the cash desk where Ash had returned and was playing a game on his mobile

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.