She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.