All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'