I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

I grew up in the 70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends. Before the age of technology, it was also easier to just disappear from the face of the earth.

And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the sun finally dropped into the center of her window and was captured inside her circle of wire. Now he turned to her, grinning. Her hair and face were aflame with orange light. "See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.