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.

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.