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

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

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

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

There aren't many shy writers left.

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