As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.