I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.

I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world.

I didn't go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.

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

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.