The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

Criminal’ pompousness will not do

We’re all the same. We all have the means to save ourselves and carry ourselves home.

If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.

Rest is by no means a waste of time.

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

All is as beautiful as we think it.

Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.

My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.