If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.

No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.

Humorists always sit at the children's table.

What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.