I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)

I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women.

You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.