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

Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.

By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.

For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.

Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.

I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.

I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.