After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.