If you had to name one particular person to blame it would have to be one of the players

Systems are made by players rather than players making systems

The dice are stacked against them

My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

First causes are outside the realm of science.

"I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about the most exciting thing that anyone can say to you.

An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

There is no more worthy, more glorious or more potent work, than to work with light.

I'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do.