I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

Consumerism is our national religion.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.