We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups..

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract..

The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general..

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the c….

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive..

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them..

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16. And have no ide….

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God..

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to se….

Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we so much want to believe that they….

To want is to have a weakness..

In Heaven, there are no debts - all have been paid, one way or another - but in Hell there's nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacte….

When we're good, we're very, very good, and when we're bad, we're horrid. This is not news, because we're so much more inventive and we have two hand….

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you..

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire..

Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to b….

What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?.

While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape….

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it..

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever ….

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both..