The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.

I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.

Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.