There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

It's not the kind of tuna that I eat.

The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S

I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.

Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.