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

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

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

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

“True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.”

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

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