While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

I just write when fear overtakes me.

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.

To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.