She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.

The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.