I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.