I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my own bizarre criteria and taste and the fact that I'm not available for many things I thought it was unlikely. Once you know the science about it, I don't think anybody should consider being committed to a real eternal relationship until you're through something called the infatuation circle.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.