Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years.

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.

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.