Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

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.

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.

A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.

You make me want to be a better man.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.