What is privacy if not for invading?

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.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman.

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

Sometimes belts are flattering, and it helps with proportions.

I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.

There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.