When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
I do owe Mickey one thing: he taught me how much I enjoyed sex.
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.
With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.
He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
Zizou is a phenomenon. It is an honour to share the same midfield as him. But he thinks the same about me.
What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.
I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
Mike Tyson has been given every penny he has coming.
I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States.
Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
When I first redesigned the 'Surfer' magazine, a magazine about magazines took a copy to the famous American designer Milton Glaser, and - surprise surprise - he hated it.
Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
