The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

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.

If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap The year grows rich as it groweth old And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.

If I don't have an erection when I'm doing a drawing, I know it's no good.