I Used To Think That Looking Across

There's Nothing Colder Than Chemistry.

I Was Born In The Theatre. My Father Was A Small Time Impresario On The West Coast And I Was Acting From The Age Of 7, But I Started To Write When I Was 12 And By The Time I Was 14 I Was Making More Money Than I Was Acting.

That Our Popular Art Forms Have Become So Obsessed With Sex Has Turned The U.s.a Into A Nation Of Hobbledehoys; As If Grown People Don't Have More Vital Concerns, Such As Taxes, Inflation, Dirty Politics, Earning A Living, Getting An Education, Or Keeping Out Of Jail.

One Might Feel That, At My Age, I Should Look On Life With More Gravity. After All, I've Been Privileged To Listen, Firsthand, Tosome Of The Most Profound Thinkers Of My Daywho Were All Beset By Gloom Over The Condition The World Had Gotten Into. Then Why Can't I View It With Anything But Amusement?

And What, For Instance, Would Have Happened Had Romeo And Juliet Lived To Middle Age, Their Silhouettes Broadened By Pasta?