The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.

Culture is worth a little risk.

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.