“I love vulgarity, good taste is death, vulgarity is life”

“Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.”

“Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.”

“One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.”

“The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.”

“I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.”

“I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.”