I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

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.

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

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

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.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.