Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.