"Women in New York have to work much harder to compete with the supermodels for attention."

"New York is where you go to catch a big fish."

"I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible."

"Normal people have sex lives of their own to worry about."

"If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? I am so over it."

"There's no point in living in an alternate reality."

"It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies."

"They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal."

"In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow."

"I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill."