There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

Tone can be as important as text.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.