"From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business"
"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"
"I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody"
