Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

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

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.