In the words he’s free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

Perhaps it is always summer, in the place where we are young.

Meeting one’s heroes is always such a disappointment.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

I always wanted to work with a TV. So I'm open.