“Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.”

“Thick skin is not the thing to have if you are an artist of any kind. It’s got to be bulletproof in the sense that it lets the bullet in, and it travels through, and it comes out the other side. I’ve had everything hurled at me, especially in Australia. Australia is where the tough journalists are.”

“All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.”

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”

“The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.”

“Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”