The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.

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.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

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

I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.

I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.