I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it... devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.