It extols death with the luminescent brilliance of a dying star. It is Genghis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream. The mantis shrimp is the harbinger of blood-soaked rainbows.

And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you.

There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

Heaven is where the reasonable people are!

Be very, very careful what you put into that head of yours, because you will never, ever get it out.

I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.