Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.

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."

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

Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.