I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.