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

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

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

A man should be what he can do.

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

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.