“A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get s...” — Robert Benchley Quote

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.

I first met Linda Lawrence in March 1965 in the green room of 'Ready Steady Go!,' the British pop TV show. Linda was a friend of one of the co-hosts. She had an art-school vibe, and after a brief conversation, I asked her to dance to a soul record playing. As we jazz danced, I fell in love.

It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don't want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don't want the right questions being asked.

Why climb? That's a question that baffles me. It perplexes me. I really asked that a lot on Everest. I can't justify it. I can't say it's for a good cause. All I can say is look at the history of exploration: it's full of vainglorious pursuits.