"The word CANCER is like the word SHARK. You say it and everybody gets extremely disturbed. There are lots of different types of cancers. There are lots of different kinds of chemotherapies. I didn't have a desperately horrible kind. And I feel extremely lucky because it wasn't the kind that had metastasized." [Carly Simon]
"I've got a friend who's so afraid of boredom that she faints after a minute of being bored at a party. She just faints. And then she spends the rest of the party under the table." [Carly Simon]
"But after 2 years of this, I found out that I was doing too much of the dirty work. The laundry. The cleaning. I was the only clean-freak, it seemed. And that really bothered me." [Peter Simon]
PETER SIMON ON RICHARD SIMON: "He's got amazing pictures of Dwight Eisenhower. And Henri Cartier-Bresson--he' s got an incredible picture of him. And Steichen."
PETER SIMON ON RICHARD SIMON: "One gift that he gave me--of the few times that we ever spent quality-time together--was this gift of photography. Because besides being a publisher & a great pianist & a very charismatic, warm, ingratiating, witty guy--he also had a camera strapped around his neck all the time."