I just can't smile at people for money.

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

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

Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram.

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

I've never seen the Kardashians; I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.

The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years.