There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

Make something beautiful of your life.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.