I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in the young than I do. I am not interested in what young people are thinking. They're thinking less than old people, of course. I mean, what could they be thinking? And what are they doing? They're doing the same stupid things you did.

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.