I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

The interesting thing about gay people is that you can't really put on a wedding without them. They're the ones who make your dress, and do the flowers and the catering. They've toiled in the wedding industry all these years but were never allowed to do it themselves.

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.