People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

What I've always wished I'd invented was paper underwear, even knowing that the idea never took off when they did come out with it. I still think it's a good idea, and I don't know why people resist it when they've accepted paper napkins and paper plates and paper curtains and paper towels-it would make more sense not to have to wash out underwear than not to have to wash out towels.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.

I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.