I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.