How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

Maybe it's superficial to exude a sense of confidence in one's clothes. But it's also integral. We have an appearance. Not all of us are beautiful. But we can appear fine looking. So we should. Feeling good about an outfit is the point at which that outfit finally becomes good.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

I used to buy all my shirts at Brooks Brothers, but that was completely ruined about 20 years ago. They discontinued the shirt I liked. If I had only known this - I mean, if you're going to discontinue an item that thousands and thousands of people buy, announce it. Say, 'We will no longer be making our excellent Brooks Brothers cotton shirts that we made for 5,000 years. We're going to change them in some awful way. We're alerting you so you can buy a lifetime supply.' Shirts don't go bad, they're not peaches.

Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.