The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.

I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.