Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.

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.

To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in the young than I do. I am not interested in what young people are thinking. They're thinking less than old people, of course. I mean, what could they be thinking? And what are they doing? They're doing the same stupid things you did.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

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