Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.

We all survive more than we think we can.