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

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

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

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 realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

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.