Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville.
There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.
If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.
I got started as an actor when I was 12.
I don't believe in colleges and universities.
My goal is to entertain myself and others.
We've got to dumb America up again.
The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.
No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
Without the library, you have no civilization.
I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.
To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.
