For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.

I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.

I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.

If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.