Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

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

You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.