The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film stands on its own, apart from whether it's based on a novel.

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?