Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.

Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.