I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.