New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.

I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.