Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.