In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.