I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.