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.'

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

We're here on Earth to fart around

The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.