Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

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.

We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

I'm sorry for being me. I won't ever do it again.

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.

There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any particular space.

I also have a feeling your mother’s going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri

I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.