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

“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

“There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.”

“There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.”

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”