"I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well."

"Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow."

"A dead atheist is someone who's all dressed up with no place to go."

"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."

"Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse."

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

"Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up."

"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'no'."

"I think I am a verb."

"We bury with many different emotions. Rarely with intimations of mortality. 'Buried' is the ultimate separation of them and us. As other's lives are often only dreams to us, so also others' deaths."

"It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation."

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake!"