Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job. - Andy Warhol

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls — blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked — stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone.

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.