I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.