I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

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

My favorite animal is steak.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York ... where a puny eight million people are trying to live. Unless they own a hotel chain, I don't think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this.

I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.