Jay McInerney

It's the cynics who never get married.

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

Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.

The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.