You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.

Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.

My goal in life is to become an adjective.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.