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

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

Sleep is death without the responsibility.

if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.