In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.