When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more.

Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.

To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.

The more you know, the less you need.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun to be no-holds-barred and have no big crisis of conscious.

I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really good, but in time I could be. I'm more of a singer than anything.