I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

I've always thought the best way to teach a kid not to be scared of the dark is to fill his daylight hours with as much horror as possible.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

I really am not a weakling. We like to do a lot of takes, so it ends up being pretty physically grueling.

Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day.

The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.

I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.