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

“It's the cynics who never get married.”

“We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.”

“I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.”