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

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

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.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.