“Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating...” — Andre Dubus III Quote

“Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.”

“Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.”

“My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.”

“When I went off to college in 1997, I didn't go back and watch 'Conan.' I was out partying and dating women.”

“When you're dating a rock star, it's not about commitment and marriage.”

“As far as dating is concerned, I'm not a casual dating person.”