The worse the author, the more he is known.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence.

Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest.

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel