“If you want to look young and thin hang around old fat people.”

“Most of the Vogue girls are so thin, tremendously thin, because Miss Anna don't like fat people.”

“Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.”

“If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.”

“I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.”

“Too fat, too thin, what the fuck are you supposed to be? God bless the media!”

“Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.”

“You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.”

“Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!”

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”