When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it's a revival. Despite the fact that they're almost always online they don't get references. I think that's part of why visual things are becoming so derivative.

When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."

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

I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.

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.

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

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.