In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that's crippling you when you're trying to write.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.

I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.

As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.