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

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.

Literature is not an instruction manual.

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

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.

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

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