While there is time, let's go out and do everything..

I cannot do politics under someone else's control..

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it..

I came here...in 1962. I'm not going anywhere..

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, ….

A lot of things just aren't true any more..

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone..

When words fail, the guitar speaks..

I'm always challenged by someone..

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women..

I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again..

It's amazing how if you turn up at a studio without an idea, a picture will take itself from momentum, and you quickly can lose control..

I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generati….

Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny..

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter..

You and I are more than you and I because it's we..

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right..

All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls..

We were very aggressive, and when we're aggressive, it's hard to stop us..

Madonna is the most famous woman on the planet and has been for a number of decades..

I'll save that for Mrs. Battier..