He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by on wind and breaking his heart.

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.

Rise up oh heart, for there is another battle to win.

you can't have her. though you know she loves youand you would not be far from her . will be always empty without her at your side

Staring at the blue sky causes insomnia to occur in the human.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.

Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry or fear. Go as fast as you can , but never hurry.

We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.