There is no weather in malls.

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.

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around.

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

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

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.