In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up.

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.