“People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.”

“Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not. [...] To plot, to take aim at something, to shape time and space. This is how we advance the art of human consciousness. (WN 291-2)”

“In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.”

“Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.”

“War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”

“Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to be whispered.”

“Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.”