I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

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

The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.

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 capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.