Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

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

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?