We are awash in the revealed world.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and I'm going to do it anyhow," that that's really the way to have a satisfying life moving forward. I think I had that kind of fearlessness even as a young person. It wasn't tempered by experience or wisdom, but it took me a long way.

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.