I'm always looking for something new and interesting to say. And it can't be something I'm directly experiencing.

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay.

Who can judge another man's suffering?

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.