How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything.

Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.

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.

For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.