It's best to give while your hand is still warm.

It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.