
I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

If my mind could have made a sound, it would have burst a row of wineglasses.

Daniel's mind is a scorpion stinging itself to death.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they've been used a couple of times.

I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.

heavy, sullen girl with a face as blunt and expressionless as a knee,

Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.

My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for.