The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."

Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just vague theories, but ideas that New Yorkers have the will, and the clout, to do something about.

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York.

You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.