I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

Fear is the root of all courage.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

If you see something you don't understand, smash it.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

The apparent craziness of the world, like everything else, is a gift that we can use to set our minds free.

When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.

The fate of the nation and the fate of the currency are one and the same.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

The most important thing is not to allow yourself to find an excuse that will let you not to do something you really want. Doing compromises makes people weaker.