Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.