Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves.

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

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