I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength.

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

I don’t know when reading books became the most essential thing about me, but it happened over the years and I found myself the most willing servant of what I considered a rich habit.

Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills.

It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts.

My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resoluteness and courage for my father to change, and I need to acknowledge that.

It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not draw attention to themselves.

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she’s tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life.

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.

To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible.

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.

If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

A boy's muscles move quicker than his thoughts.

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.