Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

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.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

The time has to be right and the heart willing.