To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

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.

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external.

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

If your soul dances, your body follows

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.