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

Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.

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

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.

Never judge a cover by its book.

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?