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

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.

Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.

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.

American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.