“I write to find out what I have lost.”

“It is always the same problem — how to keep from going under the words.”

"Murder isn’t the mystery. Memory is."

“Life doesn’t need to be seen through to the end. That’s what books are for.

“We live in the interval between what we say and what we mean.”

“What did we do before the internet? We existed, but did we mean?”

“We carry our crimes inside us. It’s the only luggage we can’t leave behind.”

“I think there’s something really beautiful about being ugly.”

“Happiness is a sad song.”

“I have a tendency to turn everything that happens to me into fiction.”

“Disappear here.”

“My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.”