The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

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