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

For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.

A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

To me, the main difference between young people now and the people I was young with isn't so much style, it's the relationships they have with their parents. Their parents like them much more than ours liked us. Our parents weren't our friends. But now I see my friends on the phones with their, what, 30 - year - old kids? And they're talking about feelings.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.