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.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

It's the cynics who never get married.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

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.

Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.