“When I get older losing my hair many years from now. Will you still be sending me a Valentine. Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?”
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“I was always a fan of the great old spaghetti Westerns, the Sergio Leone films. But the one that always sticks with me, that I just thought was brilliant and perfect is "Cat Ballou." Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou."”
“In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.”
“I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.”
“I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who was your next door neighbor you were playing with, who your girlfriend was. It's always something very specific.”
“My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.”
“In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.”
“This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'.”
“When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.”
“A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.”
“There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.”
“Remembrances last longer than present realities.”
“If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?”
“Sometimes I wonder what it will be like to look back on all this. Whether it will seem real.”
“I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.”
“I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.”
“He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.”
“The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!”
“Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.”
“I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left.”