I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.