I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didnt have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless youre going to choreograph things yourself, youre at the service of someone else.

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.