Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.

I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.

Nature finds its peace in silence, forgiveness, and universal love.

I don't know what I mean, but I know I believe it.

The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.

Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones

Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.

How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Liberals don't ask 'Does it work?' They ask 'Does it equalize?'

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!