“The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced ou...” — Candace Bushnell Quote

“The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the projects that stretched for blocks along the drive. Something inside her sank at the sight of all that sameness, and she suddenly felt defeated.”

“I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.”

“Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.”

“The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.”

“New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.”

“Time hangs off me like molting skin.”

“Monotony is the most beautiful or the most atrocious thing. The most beautiful if it is a reflection of eternity--the most atrocious if it is the sign of an unvarying perpetuity. It is time surpassed or time sterilized.”

“He always crosses her mind in the oddest moments of her life”

“Even if we naively try to explain the immeasurable spaces, energies, and galaxies of the Universe with the so-called dark matter and dark energy, it is hard to comprehend, regardless of all possible physical laws and laws of compression or contraction that such waste energies can fit into a tiny “spot.” If energy is indestructible, this beginning will prove the opposite based on its smallness. If something can disappear into nothing, it must be “destructible,” regardless of our conceptions.”

“The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.”

“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.”