We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

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

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

Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

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