Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.

You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.