Technology changes so much that it has forced me to adapt.

I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.

You sometimes say things over the phone to friends that you don't really mean.

Little people have changed from the 1970s to now.

People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.

Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.