I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.

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.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you.- Miles Vorkosigan

Because it happened in the past, doesn't mean it forgotten ...!!

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

Liberals want the family destroyed, they want religion destroned, because then you have loyalty directly to the state.

History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

The Book of Mormon is so good it makes me f**king angry.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective