The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them

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.

Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it

These were formative years for me, and many of these experiences have had a profound effect on my life.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.

I think I bit off more than I could chew. I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now... that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.

The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.