When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.
Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.