The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.

What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

All artists are two-headed calves.