Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.

[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.

I hire tea by the tea bag.

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.