I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

There is no weather in malls.

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

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you.

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.