Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

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

I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."

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

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.

Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.