"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination."

"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."

"Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends."

"Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things."

"I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning."