The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

I love working in the markets, I love working with fabric. So I'm not that conditioned to one thing.

I've learned from people, being in the weird situations that I get in. Like, dressed as my mom kissing Seth Rogen - that's a thing that happened.

The entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.