Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.

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

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.

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

Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.

Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.