Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.

Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.

If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.