I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.

Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.