I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

You should not have assault rifles in your home.

Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.