I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen.

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.