I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

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

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

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

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.

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.

What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city where civilization sort of ended, and therefore young people could live cheaply, or open nightclubs or art galleries, or even squat. That fringe moved out to New Jersey and Brooklyn. The whole idea of the metropolis is the centralization of like-minded souls, and when the central real estate becomes too expensive, the dreamers, the young poets, and the artists will go elsewhere.