[Ruling over everyone in the rich folks' enclave is the sinister Kaufman, amusingly played by Dennis Hopper: part CEO, part unelected president. He gets the best line in the film when a frowning apparatchik asks if there is any trouble.] In a world where the dead have returned to life, ... the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning.

A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships were built for.

The most damaging phrase in the language is, "It's always been done that way".

The minute we moved in (1712 North Crescent Heights), Dennis Hopper decided to give a party for Andy (Warhol), who was coming out to Los Angeles, and he decided that the one thing that would really make the house stand out, fabulously, would be billboards. So he papered the downstairs bathrooms with billboards. He had also decided that the food at the party would be hot dogs and chili. So we had a hot-dog stand! And Dennis had found huge papier-mâché Mexican figures with firecrackers hanging on them.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson,

People surprise you sometimes.