When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

I'd rather make a good run than a bad stand.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I remember Tetro was a big deal to me at that time. It was going from zero to one: Never having been in a movie, a person who had no relationship to any of that, and that was my first movie.

When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

One single glance will conquer all descriptions.

Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian.

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.