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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.

You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?

I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.