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.

I like to work at night.

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.