My experience creatively is different than my experience in life, for, as my father would say, the simple reason that you can't get hurt when everything goes wrong creatively.

After 60, all of us belong to the weaker sex.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.

Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

I do feel it's important to have some kind of faith in something, but [it is] impossible for many of us. I personally don't have any faith in anything, but it's great if you can.