Talent is a valued tormentor.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

She sounds the way bananas taste.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.