Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.

All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.