People who want their love easy don't really want love.

At a certain age just being around particular people is an event.

Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character. Then again, there is a huge gap between me as a person and what I do in the novel.

I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.