The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell you what it is. It's unexpected and it makes you laugh and think.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven. If you look at the size of the successful art galleries compared to the size of galleries now - there was no such thing as the Gagosian Gallery or Pace Gallery. But it was a time when magazines were a vital part of American life, and Esquire gave me a free pass to every world - I could get to the art world, the theater world, the movie world. It allowed you to roam through the cultural life of New York City.

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.