I don't have a problem with many uses of the word genre, just certain ones. I have the most trouble when these labels are used to prevent discussion, to prevent a work from being taken seriously as literature. When we say "genre," we generally mean "something crappy," something that would be sold in an airport.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.

But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.

[While writing], I'll go anywhere I find that is quiet, has no internet. I have a big internet problem.