The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

Back seat only works if you have a great driver!!! Either hire the right one or take charge and drive!!!!!

People in every nation behave and respond according to the values and virtues upon which they were raised. We all are a product of our environment.

Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.

Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know and more will come back to you.

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.

Alright, he's chucking his toys out the basket and Gary Shaw has a big mouth and shouts a lot.

We can get America moving again, put on top of that the kind of trade deals that'll put the American worker first, and you've got a prescription for real growth.

There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.