...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.

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.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

The agony of defeat is always greater than the pain of preparing for victory.

Then I shall bid thee goodnight, my dear. Sweet pixies watch over the dusty moonlight of your dreams, Jessameine.

For the cause that lacks assistance The wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.

The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes