It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

Hitler was a teetotalitarian.