The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

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 you're the only hot dog stand in town, you're hot dogs don't have to be good.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

I realised that in a lot of failures, there is a lot of opportunities.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies

The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.