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.

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.

If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.

I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.