Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

Courage can't make you an artist, but without that courage, you won't remain one for long. First is the courage to be alone in the room where you create, and the courage to face that indefinitely, with no one to say if you are any good or not. Then, there is the courage to follow your work wherever it's going to take you. And the courage to fight for your work.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

My spirit life is also the medium in which I live. It's not something that comes and goes. Without one the other wouldn't exist.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.