I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

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 wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.