Quotes

With the waning of everything, with the waning of the sexual drive, the witch capacity, there probably goes a certain lessening of artistic passion. I suppose I feel that in my own work. The world would really be none the worse if I were not to write anymore. But I keep wanting to do it, in part to fill the time. I don't know what you've found, but nothing makes the time pass so much as writing. You look up, and two hours have gone by! You know? It's a wonderful antidote to boredom or dullness.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any pastime becomes creative when we care about doing it right, and/or better.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

[on Gene Kelly] He had plenty of ginger but no Ginger: although he danced affectionately with Leslie Caron, amusingly with Debbie Reynolds, snappily with Judy Garland, bouncily with Rita Hayworth, broodily with Vera-Ellen, and respectfully with statuesque, stony-faced Cyd Charisse, we think of Gene Kelly as a guy in loafers and a tight T-shirt tap-dancing up a storm.