Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.

When I was young, boys didn't type.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.