Albert Einstein didn't care where he lived. Albert Einstein was a genius. Albert Einstein wasn't getting lost in the master bedroom, he was lost in thought.

It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in the young than I do. I am not interested in what young people are thinking. They're thinking less than old people, of course. I mean, what could they be thinking? And what are they doing? They're doing the same stupid things you did.

When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.