Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.