End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she dipped me back, I stepped on it. Penélope [Cruz] and Javier [Bardem] anxious to work with me again. Said if I ever come up with another screenplay to try and find them. Goodbye drink with Rebecca [Hall]. Sentimental moment. Everyone in cast and crew chipped in and bought me a ballpoint pen.

There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.

Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.

I've had bad luck in my two previous marriages. The first wife left me, and the second did not. ­

Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.

I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysenery.

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.