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

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.

I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.

I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can do it all between 15 and 19 like I did, or you can stretch it out over 70 years.

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

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.