I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.

We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.