Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

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.

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

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and basically determining the fate of my characters. But as a reader, I'm a sucker. I'm very sentimental. I get upset when people that I like die. And yet I have killed off characters in my books quite heartlessly, and sometimes found that readers were very upset by it.

You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.