Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

Before it was just her infernal curves that fretted me, but now I've taken her whole soul into my soul, and through her I've become a man!

I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

Women don't run around saying, "Oh, I took a Bodysex workshop, and I had so much fun, and Betty Dodson taught us how to blah blah." They come, they go, and I rarely hear from them again.

If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

I am infinitely strange to myself.

My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.