I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.

I think everybody should like everybody.

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

Everyone needs a fantasy.

I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor.

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.