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.

To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.