Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

maturity ... is letting things happen.

New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.