I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

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

To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.

To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

Albert Einstein didn't care where he lived. Albert Einstein was a genius. Albert Einstein wasn't getting lost in the master bedroom, he was lost in thought.

I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."

Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.