I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things.

At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone.

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age.

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.