Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

all men are the same age.

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.

Well, I like shopping.

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live

We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.