It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.