Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved..

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t..

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing.

The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art or music irrelevant. In….

When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money..

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist….

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention..

Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. T….

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families..

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me..

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times..

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash..

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work..

There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that..

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself..

Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish u….

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just t….

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her..

It's the cynics who never get married..

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I ce….

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed.