Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.