Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.

Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

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

Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!