It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette Party, and the Main Event. It's the Iron Woman and most people never make it through. They fall of their bikes and choke on ocean water.

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.