
“I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.”
Source: The Tent (2006)
New York Times, Dane Clark, Actor, 85, Dies; Starred in World War II Films, September 16, 1998
“I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.”
Source: The Tent (2006)
Statements to New York Times reporter Lacey Fosburgh, as quoted in Salinger : A Biography (2000) by Paul Alexander; also in If You Really Want to Hear About It : Writers on J.D. Salinger and His Work (2006) by Catherine Crawford.
Context: There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. … It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. … I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. … I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
Cleaning Windows
Song lyrics, Beautiful Vision (1982)
“I'm a spy… I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.”
Said Jokingly.
2000s, Larry King Live (2000)
"MMAPlayground Interview Series - Vol. 13 ("Rowdy" Ronda Rousey)", in MMAPlayground.com (8 November 2011) http://www.mmaplayground.com/forums/topic49792-1.html
“I'm a classic example of all humorists — only funny when I'm working.”
As quoted in I Am Your Father : What Every Heart Needs to Know (2010) by Mark Stibbe
“I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.”
Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?
Context: I'm starting to worry about self-censorship — that I might be internalizing some shit. I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and start writing — writing from the point of orgasm and losing control of the language and seeing what that's like.