She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive.

Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.