A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.