Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.