I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end up meeting people you like.

I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It's almost as if they're not really making things happen in their own life, but their hyperactivity is triggered for everyone else.