Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We are only as good as our most extreme experiences
Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?
Sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't get it.
It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.
Not all shabby is chic, just like not every porn actor is a star.
I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.
I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.
I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.
I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.
No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.
It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.
Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.
I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.
I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.
The Darkness at Irving. Hope to have as much fun doing anything ever as these guys have on stage.
A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.
In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.
You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.
In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.
It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.
We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.
I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.
I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.
I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.
You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself.
A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.
I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.
It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.
Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.
I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.
New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.
Hey there.' I cleared my throat. 'How are you?' I'm engaged!' Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.
Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.
When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.
and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.
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.
The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.
I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.
I don't do emoticons unless I'm making a big deal out of them. I'll type out, 'This is so amusing it makes me want to grin in pixels.' And then do it.
If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.