I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

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.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.

When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.

In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.

My ideas are all the same but look different.

The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.