I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about sex in all my books anyway.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.

"Unputdownable" is, I suppose, something we all dream of, maybe without knowing it. I realized, some time ago, that a novel can hold a lot, and it made sense that this one was not of the sleek and economical variety, but instead the "full" type. Novel as piñata. And the reader does the whacking. I had a central idea, which is to look at what happens to talent over time.

After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

This post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it.

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.