Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

I don't criticise the free choice of others, and I ask others do the same to me

I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.

God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.

When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money, his home, and his dog.

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.