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

If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.

[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

I'm so excited-I think today I'm going to brush all my teeth.

I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

Some people think about sex all the time; some people think of sex some of the time; and some people never think about sex: they become lawyers.

If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this new religious fervor, I glutted myself like a fanatic.