He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.