There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.

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

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.

Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.