The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing."

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.

No one was normal, not really.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.

Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.

In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.

Clothes are incredibly symbolic.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.