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

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

There is no weather in malls.

When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective.

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