I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

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

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.