Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.