Paris is particularly beautiful in the rain. It was just a nice experience for me, a pleasant experience, and I was able to present it to the world through my eyes, very subjectively - not realistically, but subjectively.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers.

I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.