We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.
The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.
What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.