I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing..

When you observe rather than react, you reclaim your power..

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel..

I work. I have a life. There's not much to tell..

There's part of me that is a strict materialist..

There seemed a gulf impassable between them..

There is always someone worse off than yourself..

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives..

See shades of grey... Act anyway.

I spend about a year between novels.

Exhibition is certainly the safest part of the cinema business, but it's very capital intensive..

Everyone is the other and no one is himself..

We see not our own backs..

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced..

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate..

I have to admit, I do loooove eggnog..

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there..

I don't belong to anyone..

I'm no longer interested in the possible..

I just keep making things, and whatever happens, happens..

Don't confuse close with happy.