Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.