Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.

Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.