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

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

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.

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.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.