An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.

I do some eccentric dancing.

I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.