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

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

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.

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.

Time is priceless, Cosmic Ordering is limitless.

Nothing changes and everything does.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc.

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.