I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky

I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.

Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.