When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?