Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.

We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.