Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

I really floated around in the '60s, because I felt comfortable with nothing.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.

I always write well in New York.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.