A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.

You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

Well, nobody's perfect.