I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones that don't are not very interesting directors.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

God is either cruel or incompetent.