Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

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

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

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

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

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

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.