Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.

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.

Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??

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 wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.