Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

To me, the main difference between young people now and the people I was young with isn't so much style, it's the relationships they have with their parents. Their parents like them much more than ours liked us. Our parents weren't our friends. But now I see my friends on the phones with their, what, 30 - year - old kids? And they're talking about feelings.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

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

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.