My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

Most all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44. Dylan Thomas was 39. And then once you're approaching 40, you suddenly think, "Well, maybe I would like to live longer than Fitzgerald or Thomas."

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.

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

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

Great minds sink alike, right?