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 like to work at night.

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

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

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

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.