American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World

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

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.

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

I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.