You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.

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.

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

I'm planting my love in the garden of my hope.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up

... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?

The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.