One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestia….

Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged..

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him..

There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm ….

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant..

Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened..

I write because I want to have more than one life..

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood..

Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of l….

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; a….

We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure a….

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages ar….

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house..

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no..

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a l….

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying..

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got..

Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read..

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happe….

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily..