We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

Arlene and I have to get a divorce. She thinks I'm a pervert because I drank our water bed.

I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Life is for the living.

It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don't touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them - it strengthens them to get through the day.

God is either cruel or incompetent.