I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

It's no fun being lonely.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.