Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it salvation is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy myself, but I didn't.

The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.

Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.

I wouldn't mind dying so much if it wasn't that I would be dead at the end of it.