...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...

Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.

Put meunderneath God's sky and know medon't just look at me with your eyesTake awaythis mask of flesh and bone andsee me for my soulalone

You're lucky. You're getting this over with now. You only fall in love for the first time once.""That's very Taylor Swift of you, " I say.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.