I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

People think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars.

You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

I don't rely on anybody except my own judgment. I don't get much input. I don't know if that's helped me or if I would be better off if I did rely on someone.

Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.