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I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York.

I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.

I can't write about rich people having relationship problems and breaking up in New York. I don't know that world of Terrence McNally. I knew I had to write people who talk the way I talk. And they talked very different than Terrence McNally.

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'