We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!