I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.

Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.

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

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

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 drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.