Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

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.

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.

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.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.