There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end up meeting people you like.

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.

You have to make peace with the fact that you have the right to be here, not because you have what it takes, but because your existence was authorised by the heavens.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

A true friend repays loyalty with loyalty, honesty with honestyand favours with favours.

Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.

Use God's mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil's strongholds.

To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

I think I'm under the radar enough where I don't think I'm typecast as anything yet, so I'm pretty free and clear.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.