My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind of unabashed directness that made me shiver. It's something amazing to feel that for the first time someone is seeing you as you really are, not as they wish you, or you wish yourself, to be.

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.

The book Forest Dark wants to provoke questions about what is reality and why are we so given to believe that reality is firm and unbendable. There's a whole host of questions that the book is asking about that. Why do we believe that the world is only one way and as we see it? Why are we not open to the ways in which it might be otherwise.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.