Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

You're not sick you're just in love.

When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job!