The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

The blood jet is poetryThere is no stopping it.

Living by faith, living by hope.

I am delighted to experience the beauty of life.

Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make

All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.

I’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

How do you know that I'm out of control? Maybe I'm just awkward.

Id like to do a romantic comedy like Notting Hill, which is one of my favorite movies.

The eyes are hammers.