New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.

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

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.