I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

A bad boy can be very good for a girl.