Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

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

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.