The Empty Nest Is Underrated.

Plastic Surgery Is A Way For People To Buy Themselves A Few Years Before They Have To Truly Confront What Ageing Is, Which Of Course Is Not That Your Looks Are Falling Apart, But That You Are Falling Apart And Some-day You Will Have Fallen Apart And Ceased To Exist.

You Do Get To A Certain Point In Life Where You Have To Realistically, I Think, Understand That The Days Are Getting Shorter, And You Can't Put Things Off Thinking You'll Get To Them Someday. If You Really Want To Do Them, You Better Do Them. There Are Simply Too Many People Getting Sick, And Sooner Or Later You Will. So I'm Very Much A Believer In Knowing What It Is That You Love Doing So You Can Do A Great Deal Of It.

There Are Plenty Of Men Who Philander During The Summer, To Be Sure, But They Are Usually The Same Lot Who Philander During The Winter - Albeit With Less Convenience.

You're Born, You Die. Everything In Between Is Subject To Interpretation.

A Lot Of College Graduates Approach Me About Becoming Screenwriters. I Tell Them, 'do Not Become A Screenwriter, Become A Journalist,' Because Journalists Go Into Worlds That Are Not Their Own. Kids Who Go To Hollywood Write Coming-of-age Stories For Their First Scripts, About What Happened To Them When They Were Sixteen. Then They Write The Summer Camp Script. At The Age Of Twenty-three They Haven't Produced Anything, And That's The End Of The Career.