Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was to create a book that affords readers some of the novel's long-form pleasures but that also contains the short story's ability to capture what is so difficult about being human - the brevity of our moments, their cruel irrevocability.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

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

I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.