[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.

If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.

One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe.

I've never seen the Kardashians; I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.

I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.

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.