Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.

Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.

There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.

Very happy or unhappy, people disappear.

Hatred bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

What's a jagoff?" Stich asked."It's like a jerkoff, except it's you, " Kat said.

i can wait wait wait..to go to the other side of life..but dis wait seems like d rainbow in the night..so dat u have to wonder about the presence of sun in no light

If we fought wars with laughter instead of bullets, you would die laughing instead of just dying.

A loyal servant does not think of things outside of his control.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.