And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that people haven't entered. No writer is saying, "Hey, I want to go to this very well trod territory and say exactly what someone else has done." I think the nature of a writer, because we are attempting to bring to light areas that people haven't seen before, tends in some ways to be progressive, at least in that light.