my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.

But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.