I have a theory that theories are destructive.

When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.

There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families

Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."

What if the longer we don’t deal with the memories we are haunted by, the more these memories, like long-ignored cavities, become not only painfully sensitive, but require root canal?

Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.

Self-change can only come after self-understanding.

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.