“Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.”

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

But I always say, one’s company, two’s a crowd, and three’s a party

Pop art is about liking things.

I’ve never met a person I’ve couldn’t call a beauty.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don’t know whether I’m alive or whether I died. I wasn’t afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn’t feel fear. But I am afraid. I don’t understand why.

Art is what you can get away with.

And your own life while it’s happening to you never has any atmosphere until it’s a memory.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is.

I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’

It makes them feel a little free, to kiss something dangerous on the mouth.

If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.

The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.

In the world of art, all things are possible.–George from Paradise Kiss

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow.

Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes.