I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

in nonsense is strength

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