Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.