This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

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.

I hate the day, because it lendeth lightTo see all things, but not my love to see.

Love is greater than the oceans with full of passions.

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

...we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.