I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

Words are just rules and regulations to me.

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.