I Want To Come Back As Me.

There Was Always A Love-hate Relationship With New York In The Rest Of The Country, But I Made Them Feel More Love Than Hate.

There's A Nastiness Out There That Wants To Harm Me With Words. These Are My Enemies - The Ideologues, The Populists, The Columnists Who Don't Like The Fact That I Take Them On Toe-to-toe. What I Try To Do Is Tell The Truth. It's Not The Coin Of The Realm In Politics.

I Know Many Writers Who First Dictate Passages, Then Polish What They Have Dictated. I Speak, Then I Polish - Occasionally I Do Windows.

Have You Ever Lived In The Suburbs? It's Sterile. It's Nothing. It's Wasting Your Life, And People Do Not Wish To Waste Their Lives Once They've Seen New York! This Rural American Thing - I'm Telling You, It's A Joke.

...the Mayor Should Not Be Advancing A Policy That Encourages [illegal] Immigrants To Think Of New York City As Their Safe Haven.