Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

I'm too old to make drawings.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

When I was young, I wanted to find the Great Dark Man. When I said that I realise now that people thought that by 'dark' I meant black, and that by 'great' I meant big. Whereas I only meant a strong, mysterious person; someone who would 'take me away from all this.'