When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.

In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.

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.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.