A joke is necessary at this time.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

A joke is necessary at this time.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.