Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

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.

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.