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.

There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.

I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.

The true religion of America has always been America.