Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

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.