My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked. "It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

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

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup? It's impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh.