The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.

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.

There are two types of spirits

Everything else is nothing.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

Take a look at the world and laugh

The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.