I'm for people clinging. I'm pro-clinging.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

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

I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.

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

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

[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 originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.

I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...

Fell in love with a beautiful blonde once. Drove me to drink. And I never had the decency to thank her.

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

Trust me. I'm going to make sure this healthcare bill is never, ever, ever implemented.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

The simpler it is, the better I like it.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

They import and they consume reality.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues.