Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

I open my heart to her and lay it on the table.

But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East.

To walk across the street is a risk.

We must not be afraid of solidarity; rather let us make all we have and are available to God.

I became one of the stately homos of England.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.