It has definitely been good advice, because I like what I do a lot, but it allows me the means to do the things that I love.

It's like starting from scratch. Even two or three months could make a big difference in his health.

Advice should be viewed from behind

In June 1972, I went with friends to see the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Forum. After the concert, as we crossed through the parking lot, a guy in a brown Mercedes stopped in the middle of the street and got out. He came up to me and asked if I had ever modeled.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.