I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.

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.

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

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

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

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