If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

Happiness is the only thing I understand.

When I was young, I don't know how, I spent all my time in the presence of married women telling me their troubles. And when I said 'Why did you marry?' they said, 'Oh I married to get away from home.' And when I said, 'And why don't you leave him?' they gave the saddest answer in the world: they said, 'Where would I go?' So they stayed with men they didn't like because they had nowhere to go.