A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.