Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.