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.

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.

The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.