The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

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.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

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.