All I ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him. "Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her. "It takes a man with real heart" —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— "to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!