There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

There is no weather in malls.

Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

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.

Everybody should customize their names.