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

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.

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.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.

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