I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called Thanks for CBS.

A scientist does not have hope, sir. Hope is what a man has in the absence of answers, and once he does empirical experimentation, he replaces hope with knowledge and disappointment.

He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her?Humans are full of contradictions.

Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.

Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

Originality is only variation.

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.