...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

What I've always wished I'd invented was paper underwear, even knowing that the idea never took off when they did come out with it. I still think it's a good idea, and I don't know why people resist it when they've accepted paper napkins and paper plates and paper curtains and paper towels-it would make more sense not to have to wash out underwear than not to have to wash out towels.

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference.

So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?