My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.

I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and other female impersonators.

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.