To me there’s no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They’re all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.

Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because you're pouring your heart out and you're not mitigating it with any humor or anything.

I'm awash in self-contempt!

I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

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

Better not think too much. Relying more on the body: it is more trustworthy.