Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

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.

The sky is the limit only if you have a problem with reaching for the stars.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

The people need poetry that will be their own secretTo keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.

I am a Patsy Cline fan.

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.