Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

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.

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.

I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function.

He [Bill Clinton] lost his license. He had to pay an $850,000 fine.

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man!

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, shes just really tired. Of you.

I always aspire to just be really nice to people. To be kind.