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.

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

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.

You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.