For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.