This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.

Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.

if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.

Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.