He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

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.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.

The land of the free full of freedom is the home of the brave.

I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.

Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

Change is good, and ultimately, creating a new path at this point in my life is energizing, creative, and rejuvenating.

I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.