He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.