Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life