The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

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

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.