I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did.

You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.