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Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.

People in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're invited to step into.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

My instinct was to keep him at a distance, at that distance, certainly, that we introduce between ourselves and those we suspect of neediness.

Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.

I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.

He now paid the allowance that permitted his son to live in frugal idleness.

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

It was the kind of barbarously sticky American afternoon that made me yearn for the shadows cast by scooting summer clouds in northern Europe ...

I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.

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Bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan.

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

Even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him.
Then I turn to look for what it is we're supposed to be seeing.

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.