Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

Do you know what it's like to be the kind of girl that boys never talk to and then suddenly, a boy talks to you?

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Set a goal to achieve something that's so big so exhilarating that excites you & scares you at the same time.

If dreams were wine, you'd be a sot.

We are not looking for endless variety--we are looking for fashion." February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary.

Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.