To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

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.

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

We had everything: love, attention, the best money could buy, but we were taught that we had to first give to then receive.

In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.

Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.

I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.

I'm most proud of my family.

Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.