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

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

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

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.

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.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

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.