It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

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.

After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.

If you don't mind them and accept that they don't like you, you'll see that you won't return the negativity.

All fingers are not same in length but when they are bent all stands equal. Life becomes easy when we bend and adjust to situations.

Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.