I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

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.

My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

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

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.