Someone told me early on that whenever you get a question that you don't like, say, 'That reminds me ...' and go off on whatever you feel like, ... No one will ever bring you back.

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

I've been told this reminds some of the East German days. But the difference is this one was genuine.

(Rivers) told me he felt early in the game it was over.

I always go for the sex and violence, ... If you can be great, you should talk about love and death. And if you can only be good, you should talk about sex and violence. Those are the things people are perennially interested in.

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.