"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."

"The novel (The Shining) is by no means a serious literary work, but the plot is for the most part extremely well worked out, and for a film that is all that really matters."

"The whole idea of being a great artist is to be able to express something that no one else has expressed before."

"I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?"