Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.

When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.