I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.

Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.

I lie a lot - it's really useful.