Everybody should customize their names.

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.

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

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

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.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.