Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.

I want to own the New York Jets, that's what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.