Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations.

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.