When marrying, ask yourself: do you believe you will enjoy talking with this person into your old age?

The best friend will probably get the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.

I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado.