Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.

The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

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

Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it.