As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger." A voodoo amulet, so to say.

I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.