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

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.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

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.

I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.

There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.