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" Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public. "

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" Eat, drink and remarry is my motto. "

" I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon. "

" I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times. "

" I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not. "

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" You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York. "

" Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did. "

" If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it. "

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" My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her. "

" You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded. "

" There aren't many shy writers left. "

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" The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking. "

" Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item. "

" There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that. "