One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.

I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.

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

I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.

When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it's a revival. Despite the fact that they're almost always online they don't get references. I think that's part of why visual things are becoming so derivative.