The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.