I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

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

During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.