There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

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

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

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.

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.