You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.

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

Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

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.

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

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