What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.

No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.

I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.