It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.
I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.
There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.
I can't imagine myself blowing up supermarkets!
Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.
When I first started out, I said to myself, if this doesn't happen there will be something else that I can do. That seemed possible because I knew how to do so many different kinds of jobs.
I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.
Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.
Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole. . . . The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.