In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their….

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style..

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which t….

I'm too old to make drawings..

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love….

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else..

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making..

As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk h….

Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people..

I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they….

When I was young, I don't know how, I spent all my time in the presence of married women telling me their troubles. And when I said 'Why did you marr….

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people..

That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied..

I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model….

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others..

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook..

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not r….

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave..

I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only ….

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us..