It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.

When love is strong a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.

It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.