Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.