A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image, connecting t….

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are..

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this..

Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy..

Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well..

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen..

People are just greedy animals, after all..

I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my books are pretty different fro….

It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing wh….

I always feel super uncomfortable when it's like ah, there probably has to be a sex scene. I feel really bad and then always look around to see if an….

I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts..

The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from televisio….

Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that t….

In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It is the only spot like that left, unclouded by th….

Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some ot….

The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. He reasons, But there i….

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict..

In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're reading a character's th….

Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If love is real, it is complete and tot….

[Sex] is really awkward. You know you have expectations and then it's this great moment of connection and it's a surprise. But that's what so excitin….

It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives….