I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

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.

You were born beautiful, and you remain beautiful.

All times are determined by God.

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

Every step starts with a step.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.