The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.