At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

I'm a lurid character!

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.