I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.