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

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.