Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.