Home is where your books are.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

A wet dream in the mind of New York.