I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.

I wouldn't mind dying so much if it wasn't that I would be dead at the end of it.

If man were immortal, do you realize what his meat bills would be?

It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.

I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.