I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.

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.

When I was young, boys didn't type.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

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

I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!"

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.