When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.