The less people know about me, the easier my job is.

I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.

Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.

When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.