I can be glib and truthful all at once..

He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cre….

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is..

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably..

Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We ne….

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can..

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel..

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland..

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be wri….

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts be….

After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched….

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise..

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write….

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a ….

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who own….

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class..

One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each….

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that..

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation..

To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Mil….

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?.