I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

I don't know enough to be incompetent.