Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

The root of all desire is the realization of NOT HAVING IT!

In the silence, while awaiting the distant footsteps of death he heard someone weeping! O God, was that you?

There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier is breached.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

When I'm smiling, I'm supposedly not taking the game seriously. When I'm not smiling, then it's like, "He don't care. He's just out there."

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign.

Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

Sometimes it's difficult maintaining my friendships, but to me, it's well worth it.