No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.

It's tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you're not quite there and you're redoing it and redoing it and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard.

Each of his son's had been his favorite child.