"Stories help us make sense of the chaos of life."

I think the best way to get over a broken heart is to find someone else to love.

Every ending is a new beginning.

People can’t remember more than 3 points from a speech.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.