I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.