One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

I might be old, but I'm still desirable.

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.

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.