I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

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.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

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

I will write my way into another life.

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.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.