I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted. . . . they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
Whatever you focus upon, increases.