Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

Nobody sits alone accompanied only by a stewing ambition that won't see fruit for years. Ambition is something you turn into publicity before there's anything to publicize.

I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?

Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.

He hated when his own advice applied to himself.

We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

Why is partying and having a good time bad?