It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.