I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.

I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.

I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.