I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

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.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

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