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

In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.

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.

Don't worry, I know almost exactly what I'm doing.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?

People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.