In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism. . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron. . . . I should have been able to do better.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
From an early age I loved horror movies. I read books about horror, cops, firemen and military. Over the course of the years I started to see that there's a reality to this. The first movie I was really conscious of seeing was THE EXORCIST and I don't know if any of you have seen that but it scared the sh*t out of me. It really frightened me.
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
You can create art and beauty with a computer.