Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.