Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.

In New York State they have a strange law that says you can't get a divorce unless you can prove adultery - and it's weird, because the Ten Commandments say 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' But New York State says you have to. Well, finally, what happened was that my wife committed adultery for me. She's always been more mechanically inclined than I have.

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.