You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

I was fat! I was pustule-rich! I looked like a pink human grenade! When did I blossom into the irresistible little orchid that I am now? I don't know. Getting taller helps. It spreads out a bit.

I'm quite a compulsive person-I only worked this out recently - I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive. I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop

Children are the most honest critics. They will say "You're funny", but also "You're pathetic - go away."