What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself too.