It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Maybe he wasn’t there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.

Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women

Never eat potato chips without first opening the packet!

In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

Time flies when you are having fun.

Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is On The Road, does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

If they're going to get policewomen to jump me... I wish they'd get sexier ones.