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

I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.

If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.

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 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.

Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?

The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

I regret everything. But so what? At least I have cause.

My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death.

I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table.

Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere - much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

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.

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.

Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.