For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.

I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.

People are always ruining things for you.