The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.