Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Nothing of importance happened today.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Diversity creates dimension in the world.

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like

The rhythm of a New York summer is passionate and powerful, evoking a rapid calypso, with July being the musical climax.

It’s as if everyone got cancer the day I was diagnosed, except I’m their tumor.

Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate anywhere in our text.

I wasn’t raised, I was built.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.