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

The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its place?

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

The good thing about being in someone else's apartment is it's so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out.