Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people die. It al ends happily or it all ends sadly, and the difference matters only to the people involved.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.

I don't believe in writer's block.

Violence should not always beget more violence.