Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.

To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.