There aren't many shy writers left.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

If You Lose Your Keys, At Least It's Better Than Losing Your Car.

Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways.

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

I have always been anonymous, that is the position I should be. And it is hard to say why or how you did something, it just happens.

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of novel is to set the roots in a concrete place.

The mentoring program [of the Steve Harvey foundation] is to teach young boys the principles of manhood.