You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.

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

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

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'