Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’