Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.