She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.