Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality.

If it’s not American, the French won’t go see it.

America was becoming the world’s best-defended Third World country, and the best and the brightest were collaborating in the process.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don’t have.

I’ve always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Jerry’s fortune cookie said: “Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun.

I get work because I’m primarily a novelist but I’ve become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it’s not by design. The United States dominates because it’s the biggest market.

Kiss me, and you’ll live forever. You’ll be a frog, but you’ll live forever.

It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.