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.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother.

There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.