He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.

The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

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.

You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

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