"If you think about how you sound on the radio while you are on the radio, you will fuck up how you sound on the radio."

"I get to Atlanta and I check into the Ritz Carlton Hotel. And, uh, the next morning I go to take a shower and there's no hot water. And I called the front desk and I tell the girl at the front desk, I…"

"Out of the unconscious you get ritual, dreams, drama, story, art, music, and that sort of buffers us. We have our little domain of competence, and we're buffered by the domain of fantasy and culture. …"

"And my aim in my life is to make picture and drawings, as many and as well as I can, then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking: "Oh, pict…"

"T'riss sat down opposite the Warden, her expression thoughtful. 'Is civilisation nothing but an illusion, then?'"