My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

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.

The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.