If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

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

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.