Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being..

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit..

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you..

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price..

All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you..

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want..

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner..

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience..

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head..

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time..

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding..

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered..

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better..

Sex is like money; only too much is enough..

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience..

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards..

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off..

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went..

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them..

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else..

The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up..