Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?