When Toni Morrison said ‘write the book you want to read,’ she didn’t mean everybody.
I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Nothing succeeds like address.
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
New York’s not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it’s not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
I’d like to decide who comes here. I’d like to be the admissions director of New York.
Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
Forcing people into a situation where they’re supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that’s good.
To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.