Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

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

It's the cynics who never get married.

Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

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