Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.

Better alone than badly accompanied.

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

His hand reached up to his chest and rubbed at the area over his heart as if it hurt him.

I had watched him single handedly rip the head off a zombie as he had simultaneously prayed for its soul. When you witness a man do something like that, it changes your perception of them.

We live for the purpose of loving

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.