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

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

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.

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

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.