I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

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.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking Knowing God's own time is best In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

My girlfriend and I never let each other forget how much we love each other. It's all about reminding the other person how important and special she is to you.