Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.