Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

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.

Drink today and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

O for an engine to keep back all clocks!

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

Nobody looks stupid when they are having fun.

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

When you advertise fire extinguishers, open with the fire.

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

Anywhere you can take Jesus Christ with you is all right to go.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.