Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 29, 1959
I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll chan….
And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this….
New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the sta….
I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people..
I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them b….
I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't care that sh….
You're so young... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?.
People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem….
She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’….
I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse..
Interacting with other people does not come naturally to me; it is a strain and requires effort, and since it does not come naturally I feel like I a….
It made me very sad, that question. Sad and defeated. Because I knew she knew why I was thinking about that woman-I was thinking about my own tendenc….
I suppose most people would think that it was wonderful, that the world is so varied, that there is something for everyone, and I don't know why I fe….
I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear….
I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometime….
They're both about the correct or proper way to do something. There is a correct and proper way to use words and there is a correct and proper way to….
Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. I sup….
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the ….
Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier..
I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world….
It was strange to see someone you have only known alone begin interacting with other people, for that somebody known to you disappears and is replace….