In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

Love is the most potent cosmetic.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.