I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

Autumn is my favorite season.

I grew up in Brooklyn.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.

It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.

His words were coated with glorious boredom

Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it.

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

The jazz musician's function is to feel.

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame

By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified

Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.