Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

Learn to write by writing

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.