“just heard a commercialwhich told meFarmer John smokes his ownbacon.now, there's one toughson of abitch.”

“bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it”

“there's no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say.”

“of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse”

“YOU DON'T SMELL FIRE," I yelled. YOU SMELL SMOKE.”

“there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to protect me from Hitler so I snapped the radio off and then heard his wife say, "you shouldn't have done that." and the soldier said, "FUCK THAT GUY!" which I thought was a very nice thing for him to tell his wife to do. of course, she never did.”

“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”