I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.

I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.

Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.

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

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

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.