The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.