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.

If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

[I remember going] to a hotel gym at six o'clock in the morning, and the television was on, and it's some drama in which two men have clearly kidnapped a woman. They're interrogating her, and they put a plastic bag over her head. They're suffocating her, and I'm thinking, It's six o'clock in the morning! Why does anybody need to see this? How can I find the off switch?

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

I will write my way into another life.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.