I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

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')

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.