I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.

Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.