You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.

Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.

Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.

Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"

If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.