Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

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.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

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

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

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.