We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.

those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.

Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.