If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.

It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.

I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.

I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.

I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be to get the best bartending job I could find and do theater in New York. And that was a good life.

I was working as a stockbroker in New York and had the seemingly perfect life.