The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art or music irrelevant. In fact, I think that literature and art help us to understand - sometimes they provide narratives and metaphors for understanding history, for understanding recent catastrophes.

Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

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

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.