We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.