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've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty.

New things are always better than old things.

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.