“Life never was long enough to provide time for enemies. Nor is it long enough for people who bore me, or for me to stand around boring and antagonizing others, or for all of us, the others and me, ...”

“I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.”

“Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.”

“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”

“When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.”

“The office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.”

“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”

“In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.”

“My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you cant go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people w...”