In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.

You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

I wanna hold your gland.