I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

Envy is a surefire party killer.

You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."

I'm not a matchmaker. I'm a horrible matchmaker. I always try. I'm not very good.

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

All I know is that if I continue to pitch well, good things will keep happening.

What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.