I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.

You can't handle the truth!

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.

If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, "Oh I like a person who is like this and that," you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you.

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.

I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.