I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.