I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.

The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy.

My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family.

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center.

A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it.

I wanted to get from 4th street to 8th... Then I remembered Einstein postulating that parallel lines eventually meet. They're dredging my car from Lake Michigan as we speak.