I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.

If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.