Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrow….

But children robbed of love will dwell on magic..

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration..

I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reaso….

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing..

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in p….

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do..

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them..

Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men ….

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much..