One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.