The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.

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.

Short wins does not guarantee long victories.

Every moment before this one depends on this one.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.