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.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

I think people on antidepressants often lose sexual feelings. I don't mean that I think sex is only about sadness; it is obviously about joy and vitality and birth as well.

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

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.