We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

We want someone to bring us the news.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.