I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.

I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that was supposed to pay my tuition, and I used it to make a film. For the longest time, I never actually graduated. And about 70 percent of the things I learned there I had to unlearn, but 30 percent was really valuable. It's like Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education."

Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.

I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught us to be experimental.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.