People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.

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.

You can be in the vanguard of those that bring a change to the community and to the nation as a whole.

When you tap into the energy of possibility, there is always something greater than potential can give you.

If it weren't for problems, life would be perfect and boring.

Except the Christ be born again tonightIn dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

Moslem: people who believe suicide is a good way to get laid.