To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

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

Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?