When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and….

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral..

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief..

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is Ame….

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chao….

Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than l….

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life..

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time..

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness..

You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon ….

A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idi….

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination..

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother ….

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?.

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted..

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it..

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and….

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel..

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance..

All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new ….

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once..