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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
"It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me."
"A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions."
"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting."
"Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is."
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"As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more."
"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
"When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way."
"For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing."
"And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage."
"I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing."
"That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about."
"I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work."
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