Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

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.'

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.