Great minds sink alike, right?

Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

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

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

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.