It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.

I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.