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

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.

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.

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

See yourself in a mirror, you are a human first than anything else.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

Cutting edges are always a little rough.

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

i did know this- every second i spent with her was only going to add to the pain i would have suffer later