Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.

Near a war is always not very near.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.