Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

There are times when the vehicle is in the ready mode, there are no indications externally that the vehicle can move and yet if someone accidentally hits the pedal, say when someone's inside, the car will move.

My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.