Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.