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

Because of the Internet everybody sees the same stuff. You can buy the clothes of New York, even if you're not living there. So I think that the accessibility, in this case, drives buying choices more than anything else.

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.

My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves.