Why should you live in the past when the present already has everything that you need to start a new beginning?
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.
New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.
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.
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
Crows pooping in your neighbor's roof is not good news; one day they will be pooping in your roof too
It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.
Stop worrying about who's doing better than you or not. Be better every new day than your previous day
I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.
My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair.
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
I like to discover something new each day, to interpret the world in a way others might not, like a child might approach new experiences.
Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.
