Jay McInerney

It's the cynics who never get married.

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

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

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.