You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away, " he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.

Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person.

It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.

So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them.

But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Quarterbacks are always ready.

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him.

Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.