The Coolest People in the Arts: 250 Anecdotes and Stories (Anecdotes Collections, #15)

Some Samples: 1) Despite his obvious high intelligence, Isaac Asimov could be absent-minded. When he was married to his first wife, he once took a bill to the gas company and complained about how much it was. He said, "We have never used enough gas to bring us up to the minimum. We have no children. We both work. We cook perhaps four meals a week. How can we possibly get a gas bill for $6.50? I demand an explanation." The gas-company employee had a good explanation: "This is an electric bil...