I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.