When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

I will write my way into another life.

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

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

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.

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame