At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching criminals, it has nothing to do with the Mafia, the syndicate, it has nothing to do with trust-busting, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, it has nothing to do with anything but serving as a church for the mediocre. A high church for the true mediocre.

I guess all that's left is to love the fire.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon