Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.