Most all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44. Dylan Thomas was 39. And t….

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story..

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent..

Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City..

The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do..

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world..

Eat, drink and remarry is my motto..

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightcl….

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day..

Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item..

I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or somet….

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to ou….

I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and basically determining the fate of ….

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public..

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors..

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them..

You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the univers….

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university..

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating..

Great minds sink alike, right?.

"Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters..