New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

I've made one or two movies that I haven't even seen, because they were never released. I have made things that I never even saw. But I will always go see the movie I'm in.

I like L.A., I like the fans, I like to come out here to work.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

The world is full of places to which I want to return

We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.

Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.