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.

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.

When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."

I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.

The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.

You're only as good as your last haircut.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.