I find it so liberating when other people are rude. It makes me feel mild and lazy and mean.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.