The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

History is not was, it is.

I will never lie again.

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.