Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.