All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

NOTHING happens by coincidence.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.