If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.