I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.

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

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

I used to buy all my shirts at Brooks Brothers, but that was completely ruined about 20 years ago. They discontinued the shirt I liked. If I had only known this - I mean, if you're going to discontinue an item that thousands and thousands of people buy, announce it. Say, 'We will no longer be making our excellent Brooks Brothers cotton shirts that we made for 5,000 years. We're going to change them in some awful way. We're alerting you so you can buy a lifetime supply.' Shirts don't go bad, they're not peaches.

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

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.