There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-pai….

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only ….

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting..

If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or ot….

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?.

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul..

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence..

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people..

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing ….

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much mo….

Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them ….

Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache..

If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction..

I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it..

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation..

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in..

Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol..