I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Great minds sink alike, right?

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

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.