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

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.'

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

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

I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

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

I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be.

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

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

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 certainly did.

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

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

Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

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

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.