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.

She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.