Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.

The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.

I've always been old at heart.

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