Even if the decisions one made on a given day seemed crazy, it helped to think that all things happened for a mysterious reason.

Even so, in the midst of this complicated love, there is a holy union.

...perhaps it wasn't a matter of strength so much as pliability, a willingness to let life become unpredictable and sometimes even unravel.

Well, they say there is no real faith without doubt.

Denial is a very effective human trick. People often tell how a situation was "unbearable, " though, clearly, they have borne it. Lived to tell, so to speak.

It is all new and all the same. A hundred years. A day. Ten thousand moons. For them, each day indeed is brand new, full of possibility, the unknown: a wonderland.

It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.

A new friend is like new wine when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.

I love vegging out in front of the TV, eating pizza!

We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

The walls are white, the track is grey, the grass is green, and the sky is blue...your job is to keep them all where they belong.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

I was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.

Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.