Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I'm starting to think that the men are the ones who should wear the big jewelry because they can defend it better when it's robbed. They should wear the big diamonds. You can show how much of a man you are, because the bigger the diamond, the stronger you have to be to defend it.

When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.