I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.