It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

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

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.