That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.

He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.

My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.

His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.

If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.