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.

Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject, existential subjects or romantic subjects, you never learn anything. So you make a fool of yourself when you're 20, you make a fool of yourself at 40, at 60 at 80. The ancient Greeks were dealing with these problems. They screwed up all the time. People do now.

I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.