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

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

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

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

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

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

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