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

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

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

It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

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?

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.