“The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!”

“See it? Oh, I have no interest in seeing it. Seeing it might get in the way of my opinion.”

“You know, the thing is with people who never talk, the thing is you always suppose they're harbouring some enormous secret. But, just possibly, the secret is, they have absolutely nothing to say.”

“She doesn't attend gallery openings or apear at art-world parties. "People need to see the work. It's more me than my physical presence.”

“Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”

“The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!”

“Returning to the apartment, I feel a bitter tipsy pleasure at the extent to which my world has fallen apart.”