If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.

Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.

Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.

Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.

Without obsession, life is nothing.