The past is what you take with you.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.