The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is