Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.