If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.

You're only as good as your last haircut.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.