So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.

I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...

Some people come into our lives and make us fall in love with our self!

Write it as a dream, read it as a goal.

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.

And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

I've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often been, 'Seen it? I've never heard of it.'

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

Hardy thinks they're cheering for him. I'm not going to tell him differently.