Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

If the shoe doesn't fit - break it!

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.