For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

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.

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.

Remember the shortness of life. Be true to your dreams, talents and values today.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

There's a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we've done, we can undo, if our heart's in the right place.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!