One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."

I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.