"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."

"His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married."

"One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all."

"The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur."

"He's still not interviewing other people; he's still interviewing himself."