I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote.

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.

The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the show; we really leave it to the audience. We have a certain wink, which is the Bravo wink. We may linger on a shot or we may let something play out longer, but we leave it to you.

I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.