There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up..

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story….

In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would not know until that black-borde….

Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book..

Men and women are not "equal" if "equal" means "exactly the same." Our many puzzlements and indeed unhappinesses come from trying to figure out what ….

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner..

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up..

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change..

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there….

You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain..

One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they pu….

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance..

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you….

Now that I am dead, I know everything..

Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things an….

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered..

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love..

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth..

All fat women look the same; they all look 42..

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation..

In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys..