Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

I get confused with all the rules in golf. Let's say you're playing in L.A. and your ball lands on a dead body. Is your relief one or two club lengths?

A fart is just your arse applauding.

Sometime we'll try and reach for things we know we each want and don't deserve.

Describe your perfect man who looks like me.

I could not ask for more than the love you give me... Cause it's all I've waited for... and I could not ask for more.

I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been the main contributors to freedom in our time.

I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.