Working As A Journalist Is Exactly Like

I Don't Care Who You Are. When You Sit Down To Write The First Page Of Your Screenplay, In Your Head, You're Also Writing Your Oscar Acceptance Speech.

I Don't Think Any Day Is Worth Living Without Thinking About What You're Going To Eat Next At All Times.

Reading Is Everything. Reading Makes Me Feel Like I've Accomplished Something, Learned Something, Become A Better Person. Reading Makes Me Smarter. Reading Gives Me Something To Talk About Later On. Reading Is The Unbelievably Healthy Way My Attention Deficit Disorder Medicates Itself. Reading Is Escape, And The Opposite Of Escape; It's A Way To Make Contact With Reality After A Day Of Making Things Up, And It's A Way Of Making Contact With Someone Else's Imagination After A Day That's All Too Real. Reading Is Grist. Reading Is Bliss.

The Divorce Has Lasted Way Longer Than The Marriage, But Finally It's Over. Enough About That. The Point Is That For A Long Time, The Fact That I Was Divorced Was The Most Important Thing About Me. And Now It's Not.

I Live In New York City. I Could Never Live Anywhere Else. The Events Of September 11 Forced Me To Confront The Fact That No Matter What, I Live Here And Always Will. One Of My Favorite Things About New York Is That You Can Pick Up The Phone And Order Anything And Someone Will Deliver It To You. Once I Lived For A Year In Another City, And Almost Every Waking Hour Of My Life Was Spent Going To Stores, Buying Things, Loading Them Into The Car, Bringing Them Home, Unloading Them, And Carrying Them Into The House. How Anyone Gets Anything Done In These Places Is A Mystery To Me.