The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

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

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

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.