These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.