Let there be more darkness

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.