If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.

I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.

Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.