If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative

I see the glass half full...but of poison.

Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

In the event of war, I'm a hostage.