You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.

Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.

When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.