Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

Eighty percent of love is smell.

Christianity... is an Eastern religion.

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.