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

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)

To me nature is... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it.

Our love, our love will last forever. It's forever but it just doesn't work. That's why it will always be romantic because it can not be complete.

Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety

Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.