Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.

I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.

I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that New York City was the only place that it was happening in America, really, in any live way.

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.

I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.

Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.

What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.

When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner's Performance Group - where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo.

When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.

When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.

I understood once I held a baby in my arms why some people have the need to keep having them.

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

War is a perversion of sex.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.