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

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

... everyone must play his role.

I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.