Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?

Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive.

Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves.

People who get married because they're in love make a ridiculous mistake. It makes much more sense to marry your best friend. You like your best friend more than anyone you're ever going to be in love with. You dont choose your best friend because they have a cute nose.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.