"I like wrapped things like Egyptian mummies, American burial costumes, and other archaeological finds."

"I was always interested in Egyptian mummies […] but later on, during the Vietnam War, when I saw all these bodies in …"

"“I always think that if I let go and go into the large outer space, I won’t find my way back. It’s just fear of the u…"

"Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personali…"

"Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable."

"I think style chooses you... if I could choose, I would write like Jane Austen and I would draw like Rembrandt."

"If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny…"

"Of course I believe in graphology, also palmistry, the I Ching, the tarot, astrology, and all those other delicious t…"

"I used to maintain that if it couldn't be put into words it didn't exist; if anything I believe rather the opposite now."

"Well, I'm neither one thing nor the other particularly. I suppose I'm gay. But I don't really identify with it much..…"