While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.

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.

I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.