Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

We should exterminate all rational thought.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.