The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

I am a deeply superficial person.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.