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. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.

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

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

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