Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.

It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.