Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.