JESSICA CUTLER

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

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.

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

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

Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

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.

You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal?

I have a 'glamour job' on the Hill. That is, I could not care less about gov or politics, but working for a Senator looks good on my resume. And these marble hallways are such great places for meeting boys and showing off my outfits.

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.

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

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.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal?

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

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.

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

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

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.

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

You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here.

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

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.

Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.

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

I have a 'glamour job' on the Hill. That is, I could not care less about gov or politics, but working for a Senator looks good on my resume. And these marble hallways are such great places for meeting boys and showing off my outfits.