My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.