Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

I am a summer person.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

One is never too young for fine literature . . .

...Every life contains a novel.

Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

Passionate life is the beauty of a sacred-existence.

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It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.

I didn't really do too much television. I really went straight into film.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.