An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

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

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

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

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

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.

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.