[on art] This is the dialectic-there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
I certainly believe that happiness exists, if only by the simple fact that it can be destroyed.
[interview in 1978]: By temperament, I'm a pessimist.
[on Clark Gable]: That face of a tomcat - what did people see in it?