I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

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.

When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.

Home is where your teapots are.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

To make lashes curl better, take a hair dryer to your eyelash curler for one or two seconds before using it.

My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.