New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.