Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.

You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it.

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.