My Characters Are Actually Usually Pretty Smart

The Moulin Rouge Is, Like The West Village And The Nasdaq, One Of Those Places That People Who Don't Like To Take Risks Come To For The Thrill Of Being On The Spot Where Risks Once Were Taken.

Every Form Of Strength Is Also A Form Of Weakness,” He Once Wrote. “pretty Girls Tend To Become Insufferable Because, Being Pretty, Their Faults Are Too Much Tolerated. Possessions Entrap Men, And Wealth Paralyzes Them. I Learned To Write Because I Am One Of Those People Who Somehow Cannot Manage The Common Communications Of Smiles And Gestures, But Must Use Words To Get Across Things That Other People Would Never Need To Say.

He's A Machine For Competitive Balance, ... Yes, The Money Is In New York. Yes, The Money Is In His Hands. But He Squanders Money. Thank God For It.

I'd Stumbled Into A Job At Salomon Brothers In 1985, And Stumbled Out, Richer, In 1988, And Even Though I Wrote A Book About The Experience, The Whole Thing Still Strikes Me Me As Totally Preposterous-which Is One Reason The Money Was So Easy To Walk Away From.

My Judgement Is Not Good When I Am On A Book Tour. I Am Not Thinking About It That Much. What Happens Is I Will Go Back Home. I Have A 4-year-old And A 1-year-old And A Wife Who Is Now Taking Care Of Them Who Is Wondering Where Her Husband Is.