Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.