My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

You should not have assault rifles in your home.

People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappointment them, or, if they do, the owners manages to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

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

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.