When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University – that I don’t like.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.

I don’t feel I’ve had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

I’m not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it’s really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.