Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.

New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.

...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.