I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.

I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope.

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.