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.

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.

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

The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.