I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.