What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

I wrestle with my mind, but seldom win.

Quality of life is more important than the quantity

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

I don't work at being ordinary.