Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.

I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.