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.

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.

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

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

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up at your desk - although frankly, I don't have a desk, I write in bed - you're supposed to show up at your bed and produce work. I think it's a little bit like work. I like to have fun with it, do things like make silly book trailers. I don't want to take this too seriously.