You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.