Without obsession, life is nothing.

The further away I am from water, the less well I do!

Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

I think it's important to visit people in prison. And if you know anyone in prison, I would encourage you very much to visit them. They're a good audience! I always get good letters from prisoners. I don't usually answer them because I have a lot going on in my life, but I get some really good ones, I get some really good letters from prison.

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.