I loathed every day and regret every moment I spent in a school.

My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening.

They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.