Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

The human mind is an uninvented field and the source of unlimited resources.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!

Dragons don't bother with introductions.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy?

Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.