Novelists don't normally write about what's going on

She laughed. 'See? You can do philosophy!' He rolled his eyes and shook his head. 'Don't insult me.

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off

We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.

O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.

Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.