I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.
As you get older you're always maturing you're always learning something new about yourself.
I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean really learning to play the guitar.
I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period in terms of writing for me.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book you just tell the best story you know how to tell.
I think as an actor you're always learning you're always trying to experience more things.
I really believe that what happens one day affects the next and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning play by play it built up to its natural climax.
I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way but you're just constantly interacting and learning.