The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Great minds sink alike, right?

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.