I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you.

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.