Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.

Now i no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.