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

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

To me, the main difference between young people now and the people I was young with isn't so much style, it's the relationships they have with their parents. Their parents like them much more than ours liked us. Our parents weren't our friends. But now I see my friends on the phones with their, what, 30 - year - old kids? And they're talking about feelings.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.